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Read this after you read the manga, it may contain SPOILERS.

Well, i start this review telling that Urasawa is one of my fav mangakas, Billy bat and 20th are in my fav artists ever, but, reading Happy! i felt some problems.

In the beginning there were some few unfortunate moments, the problem is that chapter after chapters these unfortunate situations always repeat, literally the same situations. I get the message is to be happy even if the world crush you no matter what, but this was maybe a bit too much and unrealistic.

Chouko make the usual "joke" -> Everyone becomes stupid and believe her
-> Miyuki ... win -> Booed -> some tragic situation -> REPEAT

I really was giving 7, but the ending is just so... happy that i almost cried. Maybe after all these repetitive bad moments, seeing everyone, audience and enemis and literally the Japan cheering for Miyuki made me feel even better for her. Or seeing Sabrina help her rise while everyone cheering them putting the cardigan on her shoulder, i waited 254 chapter to see some happines in this story. So i gave it 8. I didn't feel this plot problem in the successive works. And Urasawa made Happy! along with Monster, so maybe he was more focussed on this, who knows.

I've never had hard time like this judging something, it's just that it has very high moments, and very low and unbearable moments, just like literally the 150.000 time that the reader see Chouko plotting the same bad deed for Miyuki sat in a table with someone. Or, when literally Miyuki went around the world and everyone still deny her talent and skills, and hardly know who she was, come on.
So stressful, weak and unrealistic.

Crticisms aside, i'm happy that Sabrina returned after the loss, and that Miyuki still play, probably in the last pages Urasawa told us that the next match was the next month, cause the time being she recovered her leg. It's just weird that the Wimbedon champion, now free of debts, still live in that place, well i guess she's very humble after all. I think she'll return in the pro tennis more carefreely and one championship at a time because of her last injury. We don't know how the relationship between her and Madam Otohri and her son is, but according to the last chapters, i assume that the madame took her as a player and in the future she'll be happy with her son. I'm not sure about Thunder, i hope he's happy too, becoming a legal coach. Or, maybe he's retired. After all, his dream was to dethrone Sabrina, who knows.